Discovery Tu Lan Cave 1 day

Route: Primary forest; Chuot Cave; La Ken valley; Hung Ton Cave; swimming in Hung Ton cave; To Mo valley and waterfall.

Duration: 1 day

Transport: car

Price: from $75

One day tour to Tu Lan Caves System is designed for tourist would like to explore the nature, jungle, untouched caves with limited of time. This tour will offer tourist chance to experience the primary forest, Chuot (Rat) cave, trekking uphill from Laken valley (elevation: 150m) to Hung Ton valley, explore Hung Ton dry cave and experience the ladder with 10m vertical drop, swimming 100m in the darkness of Hung Ton river cave. This tour will bring you unique caving and trekking experiences.

Trekking gear: Helmet, trekking boots (wet and dry trek), headlight, life jacket, dry box for cameras.

ITINERARY:

Phong Nha -Tan Hoa-La Ken valley – Hung Ton cave – To Mo valley – Phong Nha (L)

07:30 -09:00 Depart from Phong Nha to Tan Hoa Village by vehicle

09:00 -11:00 Trekking from Tan Hoa village to Chuot cave, Laken valley

11:00 –13:00 Trekking uphill from Laken valley to Hung Ton cave

13:00 – 14:00 Picnic lunch at Hung Ton cave

14:00 – 15:30 Explore Hung Ton dry cave, go down 10m ladder in the cave, Swim through hung Ton cave.

15:30-17:00 – Trek back to Tan Hoa Village; Pick up and transfer to Phong Nha

18:30: – Arrive Phong Nha, tour ends.

Tour includes:

Picnic lunches

Entrance fees

Trekking gear

Tour guide

Porter (6 Pax share 1 porter)

Transportation (during the tour at Phong Nha)

Excludes:

Hotel (Before and after the tour)

Breakfast and dinner before and after the tour

Personal expenses

Travel insurance

VAT

Sapa - Y Ty - Muong Hum 2days 3 nights

Route: Hanoi - Lao Cai - Sapa - Ta Phin - Y Ty - Muong Hum - Lao Cai - Hanoi

Duration: 2 days 3 nights

Transport: train/car

Price: contact

OVERVIEW

Y Ty commune is located west of Bat Xat district, about 100 km from Lao Cai town. Y Ty is dub “foggy land” with gorgeous terraced fields and the most beautiful earth walled houses in Lao Cai.

Hani villages and Dan Sang and Y Ty cardamom protected forest. Over a century ago, the French military keeping watch on the Chinese border praised the beauty of the Y Ty plateau, 2000m-high and therefore 400m higher than Sa Pa.

ITINERARY:

Day 1: Hanoi - Laocai - Sapa ( B – L- D)

The train from Hanoi arrives to Lao Cai Station approx. at 05:30am. After breakfast at the local restaurant, Vietnam Typical Tours' guide will take you to visit the Dragon Mountain in Sapa, where you can enjoy the beautiful view over Sapa town, to visit the “music village” with traditional ethnic music, to walk around black rock mountains and many kinds of flowers like orchids and roses. Then you will come back to the hotel to take a rest before heading out for dinner at local restaurant.

In the afternoon you will have a pleasant tour to Cat Cat village, home to Black H’mong people. You will walk with your English speaking guide downhill about 4 km. On the way to the village you have the opportunity to enjoy breathtaking scenery of the mountains range and peaceful Muong Hoa valley; notice the villagers working on the paddy rice fields, their children playing around, and their animals such as: water-buffaloes, pot-belled pigs and chickens. You can also see on the way an old hydro-electric power station which was built in the early 20th century by French. After crossing village, we’ll arrive to a beautiful waterfall which is a good place for refreshing and taking pictures. At the end of the tour, you will return back to Sapa by foot.

At evening you have free time to explore the night life of Sapa. Dinner is held at local restaurant in Sapa.

Day 2: Sapa - Ta Phin - Y Ty (B-L-D)

After having a breakfast, checking out the hotel, you will start your journey from Sapa by car toY Tý. You will have the chance to see the starting poin of Red River running into Vietnam land that is very popular river of Vietnam, which has one part runs through Hanoi. We will stop over there where you can see the conjunction of Lung Po Stream joining to Red river.

Having lunch at Y Ty and take lunch break.

In the afternoon, We start our visit to Lao Chai 1 village in which we can see the biggest house in mushroom shape located in the middle of Ha Nhi People ( one of the most popular ethenic people living in Y Ty) We have chance to meet the local people and share cultural experiences with families. After that, we continue discovery Phin Ho plateau with the height of over 2.000 m , enjoy the fresh and pure air and discovery the diversity of plants.

Go back Y Ty and over night at home stay in the village.

Day 3: Y Tý- Muong Hum - Lao Cai (B-L)

In the morning, after a quick breakfast our friendly driver take you to Mung Hum by car. On the way, we will stop at Y Tý jungle which is primary forest having diversity of ancient trees, and rare herbal. Overhere the weather is foggy and cool every season of the year. Enjoy the overall pictures of the local market which is taken in part of so many local people in their own colorful dress. This kind of market was held weekly by local people in 20 km2 surrounded.

Having lunch on the way, will go directly to to Laocai to take the train go back to Hanoi. Enjoy your dinner in Lao Cai City .

TOUR INCLUDED:

Transfer from the hotel to Hanoi Railway Station

Roundtrip transfer in Sapa, Lao Cai

Return train tickets Hanoi - Laocai - Hanoi (Soft sleeper with A/C - 4 persons in one cabin)

1 night at 3* hotel in Sapa

Homestay fee 1 nights

Meals as stated above

English speaking guide

Entrance fees

TOUR EXCLUDED:

Travel insurance 

Extra food and beverages

Phone and laundry

Tips and personal expenses 

TOUR NOTES:

Bring walking shoes, raincoat, jacket, extra clothes, torth, insect repellent and sunscreen.

Hoa Binh - Hang Kia - Cun Pheo - Mai Chau trekking tour 5 days 4 nights

Route: Hanoi - Hoa Binh - Hang Kia - Cun Pheo - Mai Chau - Hanoi

Duration: 5 days 4 nights

Transport: car

Price: contact

Inspired by a team of friends traveling with a tourist group, I have recently made the 5d/ 4n trekking tour to some of the most beautiful and remote areas in Hoa Binh province. Please find below some updates concerning this tour.

Itinerary

Day 1: Hanoi - Museum of Ethnology - Hoa Binh (L, D)

Car and tourist guide of Vietnam Typical Tours pick you up at your hotel. Visit Museum of ethonology in Hanoi.

9.30: Drive from Hanoi to Hoa Binh. Arrive in Hoa Binh and check in at Hoa Binh hotel

Lunch at hotel.

PM: Meet the local guide. Transfer to the pier for a cruise on Hoa Binh lake which takes 30 minutes before disembarking on a village of Muong minority called Voi. Start trekking through the village then onto the hill along the river, ending the walk at the hotel.

Dinner at hotel followed by a minority folk music performance.

Day 2: Hoa Binh - Xa Linh - Hang Kia (B, L, D)

Breakfast at hotel.

Then, transfer from Hoa Binh to the direction of Mai Chau with a stopover to visit a Saturday market called Phu Cuong. Passing Mai Chau to continue another 30 minutes on national road no. 6.

Dropoff and start the trek to Xa Linh in 90 minutes.

Lunch in Xa linh in a home of Hmong people.

Continue to Cha Day village where there are choices of easy and more difficult routes to Hang Kia. On rainy days, the more difficult one should be hazardous. We finally took the easy one, passing through streams and corn fields. We arrived at Hang kia village at 17h30. This is a village at the height of more than 1000 meters above sea level, so it is quite cool even in summer time. There is only one family in the village who can host tourists, with maximum capacity of about 30 pax. The owner, 65 and having 13 children, was former district's communist party secretary.

Dinner: vegetable soup, fried beef, roasted pork, bread, fried chopped shrimp, fried vegetable

Overnight at house of H'mong people.

Day 3: Hang Kia - Cun Pheo (B, L, D)

Breakfast.

AM: 4 hours of trekking through the most difficult part of the trek. Our guide fell and had a serious cut in the hand.

Picnic lunch at a village of Thai people: bread, boiled egg, cumcumber, roasted chicken & beef.

PM: 2 hours trek before getting to Cun Pheo. Stay at a village of Muong minority. This is a spectacular village surrounded by palm gardens and bamboo

Dinner and overnight at house on stilt

Day 4: Cun Pheo - Xam Khoe (B,L,D)

Breakfast.

3 hours trek in the morning brings us to Sam Khoe where we stay at a Thai village.

Lunch.

PM: 2 hours bonus trek to see the nearby garden and terraced rice fields

Dinner with a jar of Can wine. The food is placed in large trays lined with banana leaves and decorated like traditional food of Thai minority.

Overnight at house on stilt.

Day 5: Xam Khoe - Mai Chau - Hanoi (B,L)

Breakfast

1.5 hours trek to reach an inter-district road where we meet our bus (should be 16-35 seater) to pick us up and drive to Hoa Binh town via Mai Chau.

Lunch at Hoa Binh hotel.

Continue drive and drop-off in Hanoi in the afternoon.

Tour included:

- Car, accommodation, tourist guide, Foods,entrance fees

Tour excluded: 
- Tip, private expends, ...

Hanoi city Tour full day

Itinerary: Hanoi city

Duration: 1 day

Transport: car

Departure: daily

Price: from 35$

Anyone who has ever visited Hanoi will probably tell you that it may be the most beautiful city in all of Asia. People have settled here along the Red River for a thousand years. Nestled along wooded boulevards among the city’s two dozen lakes you will find architectural souvenirs left by all who conquered this great valley, from the Chinese who first came in the last millennium to the French, booted out in our own century.

PROGRAM:

07:45 - 08:30  Get picked up by our tour guide and bus. After short drive, start visiting first place named Tran Quoc Pagoda, a Buddhist relic and national heritage lying on the West Lake.

09:00 Visit Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, the final resting place of Viet Nam’s greatest father, walking along Ho Chi Minh’s stilt house where he lived and worked from 1958 to 1969.

10:00 Visit One-Pillar Pagoda – the one modeled after a lotus flower, a symbol of Hanoi city.

11:00 Visit the colorful features of the 54 ethnic groups of Viet Nam in the Ethnology Museum.

13:00 Bus takes you to a local restaurant in Hanoi Old Quarter, have a rest and enjoy the lunch.

14:00 Visit Temple of Literature, the most famous temple situated in Hanoi, also functioned as Vietnam's first university. It was first constructed in 1070 under King Ly Nhan Tong and dedicated to Confucius, sages and scholars. A vast structure that has existed to present day.

15:30 Drive to legendary Hoan Kiem Lake, visit Ngoc Son Temple dedicated to Van Xuong saint and former general commander Tran Hung Dao for his struggle against Mongolians. You also see the beautiful Vietnamese and French architecture around the lake.

16:00 Arrive back to your hotel. Tour ends.

Trip included: 

- Pick-up and transfer by A/C modern bus.

- A bottle of water/person on the bus.

- English speaking tour guide

- All entrance fees to sites indicated in itinerary

- Meals as : Lunch

Trip excluded:

- Beverages, tax and personal expenses

- Others not clearly mentioned above

CHILDREN POLICY: 

- Baby Cost is free of charge and according to availability.

- Children under 5 years old will be free of charge.

- Children from 5 to under 9 years old 75%

- From 10 and above will be charged as adult (100% tour price)

Halong Bay 1 day

Itinerary: Hanoi - Halong - Thien Cung Cave - Hanoi

Duration: 1 day

Transport: Car

Departure: daily

Price: from 35$

Ha Long Bay is said to be a magic land of natural sea bay beauty, attracting more and more tourists ever since UNESCO’s recognition of its nature!

PROGRAM:

7h45 – 8h15: Our driver and tour guide will pick you up at your hotel or our office depart to Ha long Bay, spend 3,5 hours . On the haft way stop for short break in Hai Duong Province 25 minutes.

12h00 – 12h15: Arrive Bai Chay port, Start cruising and enjoy a Special lunch with Vietnamese Traditional Dishes while the boat slowly slides on romantic waves of the sea to the legendary fishing village.

13.00PM: Visiting floating village (Or kayaking, moto boat, bamboo boat if you have booking).

14.00 :Visiting ‘’Thien Cung Cave”. Thien Cung Cave or the Cave of Heavenly Palace is on the same island , Thien Cung Cave makes the visitors the impression of being in a heavenly world.

16.45 : Return to Halong Habour, get on the bus back to Hanoi

20.30: Arrive to Hanoi. Tour End!

      

Trip included:

- Pick-up and transfer by A/C modern bus Hanoi – Halong – Hanoi

- A bottle of water/person on the bus.

- English speaking tour guide

- All entrance fees to sites indicated in itinerary

- Meals as : Lunch

Trip excluded:

- Beverages, tax and personal expenses

- Others not clearly mentioned above

CHILDREN POLICY:

- Baby Cost is free of charge and according to availability.

- Children under 5 years old will be free of charge.

- Children from 5 to under 9 years old 75%

- From 10 and above will be charged as adult (100% tour price)

  

WHAT TO BRING:

- Original passport, sun glasses, insect repellent

- Cruise itinerary and schedule subject to change upon weather and operations conditions.

- Special requests on food (diet or vegetarian) please inform us before departure.

Sapa Bac Ha market tour 3 days 4 nights

Bac Ha market is very well known in the area for its color painted to local hill tribe people. There are Flower Hmong, Phu La, Black Dzao, Tay and Nung…They all gather to the market to sell their homemade products such as corn wine, handicraft… as well as an interesting animal.

1st night: Trekking Travel's taxi takes you to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train.

Day 1: Lao Cai - Bac Ha - Sapa ( B/L/D)

The train arrives at the Lao Cai train station at approximately 6:00 am. Pick up and transfer to Sapa . After breakfast we take the minibus to go to Bac Ha (arrive at about 10.00AM). 10h30: At the market day you have opportunities to meet local people from the remote villages in their traditional costumes. They are 4 different tribal groups Flower Hmong, Black Dao, Toy and Phi La, in the afternoon taking 2 hour walk to visit Ban Phi – A Flower Hmong village which is located in scenic valley. 

16h30: Bus transfer back to Sapa for dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 2: Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van (B,L,D)

After breakfast, we leave the hotel and start trekking down the valley to the Muong Hoa River and from here to the Black H'mong village Lao Chai. Black H'mong is one of the biggest minority groups in the Sapa area. After this you continue to Ta Van village  to visit the Zay people. The Zay houses are built of wood and bamboo with a clay floor. 

Have picnic lunch on the way then keep going to the bottom of Sapa valley. 

Jeep back to Sapa in the afternoon. Overnight at the hotel in Sapa.

Day 3: Sapa - Cat Cat - Sin Chai, trekking tour ( B/L/D)

Have breakfast at your hotel. Trek around 10 km to visit two villages of the Black H'mong (Catcat and SinChai). Visit the waterfall and hydroelectric power station established by the French in CatCat village, nice landscapes of green forests and beautiful scenery along the way. Walk back to Sapa. 

Check out the hotel. Have lunch at the local restaurant. 

Afternoon, free to visit Sapa town, market, church and flower garden in HamRong mountain... 

16h30: Bus take you back to Lao Cai railway station for train back Hanoi.

Tour includes:

Night train tickets 2 ways Hanoi-Laocai -Hanoi (soft sleeper with air-conditioning, cabin of 04 berths)

Pick up and transfer by jeep or minibus as tour program.

Meals as itinerary

Entrance fees

Accommodation based on twin share or double (Hotel and home-stay)

English-speaking guide

Tour excludes:

Travel insurance

Drinks and tipping at customer’s discretion

VAT